A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
Deborah Solomon "The Way We Live Now: 3-26-00: Questions for Hans Haacke; School for Scandal," in: The New York Times Biographical Service, Vol. 31 (2000), p. 588
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